Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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... appeared , a few dark conspiracies in which only a small number of desperate men engaged , such were the utmost efforts made by these two parties to assert the most sacred of human rights , attacked by the most odious tyranny . The ...
... appeared , a few dark conspiracies in which only a small number of desperate men engaged , such were the utmost efforts made by these two parties to assert the most sacred of human rights , attacked by the most odious tyranny . The ...
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... appeared as advocates before the courts of law . they could safely indulge in the wildest freaks of cruelty and rapacity , while their legions remained faithful . Our Tudors , on the other hand , under the titles and forms of ...
... appeared as advocates before the courts of law . they could safely indulge in the wildest freaks of cruelty and rapacity , while their legions remained faithful . Our Tudors , on the other hand , under the titles and forms of ...
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... appearance of Lord Mahon in the character of an author . His first book was creditable to him , but was in every respect in- ferior to the work which now lies before us . He has undoubtedly some of the most valuable qualities of a ...
... appearance of Lord Mahon in the character of an author . His first book was creditable to him , but was in every respect in- ferior to the work which now lies before us . He has undoubtedly some of the most valuable qualities of a ...
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... appearance , great and magnificent . The European dominions subject to the last feeble Prince of the House of Austria were far more extensive than those of Louis the Fourteenth . The American dependencies of the Castilian crown still ...
... appearance , great and magnificent . The European dominions subject to the last feeble Prince of the House of Austria were far more extensive than those of Louis the Fourteenth . The American dependencies of the Castilian crown still ...
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... appeared before him— such was the skill of the embalmer — in all her well- remembered beauty . He cast one glance on those beloved features , unseen for eighteen years , those fea- tures over which corruption seemed to have no power ...
... appeared before him— such was the skill of the embalmer — in all her well- remembered beauty . He cast one glance on those beloved features , unseen for eighteen years , those fea- tures over which corruption seemed to have no power ...
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